Heavily armed drug traffickers from Mexico are using the only national forest in Wisconsin as their personal farms and greenhouses, growing millions of dollars in marijuana and leaving behind their garbage, poached deer carcasses, fertilizer and pesticides.

For the last three summers, large marijuana operations have been discovered in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in northern Wisconsin. In each of those busts, law enforcement made numerous arrests, almost all natives of Mexico here illegally. Confiscated weapons included handguns, AK-47s and a .308-caliber rifle with ammunition magazines taped together.

Jeff Seefeldt, district ranger for the U.S. Forest Service, surveyed the scene with disgust.

"When the spring rains come all this would have ended up in that Class A trout stream," Seefeldt said nodding to the south branch of the Oconto River that wound through an area that had been clear-cut and planted with hundreds of marijuana plants.

Note that at the right-wing Milwaukee Urinal/Sentinel, "almost all" is a euphemism for "some" when it fits their spin. I'd like to see some stats to accompany their claim of "almost all".

Note also that the ranger's outrage was not over someone getting lit up, but about the effect of the illegal crop on a nearby trout stream.

Under our "small government" Republicans, surely we'll follow the lead of Colorado and Washington, right?